He might be a little shorter now than his listed 6-foot-7, but Josh Huestis looks like a new man without his familiar Afro.

The Stanford forward had it lopped off Tuesday after sub-par performances in the first three Pac-12 games, including a one-point clunker against Oregon.

Wearing his hair short like teammate Anthony Brown, Huestis had 15 points to share high-point honors with Brown as the Cardinal routed Washington State 80-48 Wednesday night at Maples Pavilion.

"It's the sign of a new beginning," Huestis said of his new look. "The past few games I've been putting too much pressure on myself. It looks like it worked."

He unloaded three dunks, including one on an inbounds play and another where he reached behind his head on an acrobatic maneuver. Teammate Dwight Powell later outdid him, Huestis conceded, with a one-handed jam on a putback. "But Saturday's a new day," against Washington, he said, smiling. "I'll get him."

As far as coach Johnny Dawkins was concerned, Huestis' clean-cut look is perfect.

"I love it," he said. "If he plays like this with that look, I'll always love it. He was the Josh we've all come to know."

Huestis' teammates and coaches had trouble adjusting to his new look at first. Dawkins was wondering where Huestis was during a team meeting until he figured out he was looking right at him.

The Cardinal shot 57.7 percent from the field to even their Pac-12 record at 2-2 and lift their overall mark to 11-5. They enjoyed their most one-sided conference win since beating Washington 105-60 on Jan. 19, 2002.

Washington State (8-9, 1-4) made a game of it for most of the first half. There were 14 lead changes until Stanford took the lead for good at 29-27 on two Powell free throws. Then Brown hit a three, and backup guard Robbie Lemons banged in two more. It was 40-29 at the half, and the lead quickly grew to 20 points early in the second half.

The Cougars were without their leading scorer, guard DaVonté Lacy, who averages 17.7 points per game. Coach Ken Bone said this week that Lacy would miss the next three to five weeks. He suffered from appendicitis at the end of December, and when he returned to action, he sustained what the school called a rib injury.